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2026-08-06 3 stories

• A new PS5 firmware beta update is here, and it's good news for PS5 Pro owners 4 sources
• Unity sells Supersonic publishing business to Tripledot for $40M 2 sources
• AppLovin misses guidance despite 53% revenue growth in Q2

2026-08-05 1 story

• "Believable and consistent up close": What the dinosaurs of The Lost Wild share with Microsoft’s cancelled Everwild, according to the designer who worked on both

2026-08-04 4 stories

• Stellar Blade: Blood Rain's AI music video should be viewed with "understanding in mind", says studio boss 2 sources
• Stellar Blade: Blood Rain – Release Date, Gameplay, And Everything We Know
• Koei Tecmo is putting out an “AI chat RPG” based on the Atelier Ryza series, and it sounds bleak
• A retired tennis pro built and launched Tennis Tycoon entirely with Claude Code

2026-08-03 4 stories

• Square Enix responds to Kingdom Hearts Collection AI controversy two months after players called it out 2 sources
• Shift Up CEO Defends Stellar Blade: Blood Rain AI Music Video Against Player Backlash 2 sources
• Roblox says new ‘Slim’ tech will let complex avatars run on low-end Android as it pushes mobile-first game creation
• AI startup Reforged Labs shuts down as the "gap we were selling into is closing"

2026-08-02 1 story

• Stellar Blade: Blood Rain's AI slop music video is terrible for us all

2026-08-01 1 story

• The voice of Shinji in Evangelion says AI voice cloning is 'heartbreaking,' calls for Japanese government to intervene

2026-07-31 4 stories

• Shift-Up promotes Stellar Blade 2 with AI-generated KPop music video featuring the game's main character 7 sources
• Nexus Mods finally tightens the screws on AI, though it's still playing softball with the tide of slop 2 sources
• Square Enix Says Controversial Kingdom Hearts Collection Art Was the Result of 'Human Error,' Not Generative AI
• Double Fine cuts staff, Xbox's revenue decline, and Leon Kennedy pays off - Patch Notes #63

2026-07-30 3 stories

• Square Enix Insists That Cursed Kingdom Hearts Art Was Not AI-Generated 2 sources
• Halo: Campaign Evolved doesn't have split-screen on PC, but this mod fixes that, if you're willing to look past some quirks 2 sources
• Gleefully counting its billions, Samsung cries warning of a 'severe' memory supply crisis next year

2026-07-29 2 stories

• Halo: Campaign Evolved On PC Has A Hidden Feature You Need A Mod To Access 2 sources
• Hands-on with EA Sports FC 27: New corners, better crossing, and huge changes to AI defending

2026-07-22 3 stories

• Reddit is forcing Google AI into hallucinating The Duskbloods characters before FromSoftware's Switch 2 exclusive is even out
• Former Tencent CTO Joins ‘AI-Powered Game Production’ Firm
• Acer and Gigabyte will launch RTX Spark laptops too, but not before Microsoft and Co.

2026-07-21 3 stories

• Unity 7 is coming Q1 2027 2 sources
• Nvidia finally reveals what controls devs actually have for DLSS 5, and don't worry folks, there are TWO main sliders to control the AI filter
• Even sexy Skyrim mods aren't safe from AI slop anymore

2026-07-20 2 stories

• My sluggish limbs mean I'm terrible at Black Myth: Wukong on both a controller, as well as mouse and keyboard—so surely a brain-computer interface is the answer
• First-person explorer Sketchy Fables is a twitchy, teeming feast of hand-drawn art with acting from Hades 2's Sarah Grayson

2026-07-17 3 stories

• Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Dev Is Tired Of People Calling Gunny An AI Chatbot 3 sources
• In An Era Of AI Slop, Meccha Chameleon Embraces Human-Crafted Chaos
• Fortnite has started adding AI voices to its NPCs for an upcoming ‘conversations’ feature

2026-07-16 2 stories

• Roblox Will Let Anyone Use AI to Turn Text Prompts Into a Basic Game on Their Phone 4 sources
• Fortnite is getting a bunch of AI-powered ‘personas’

2026-07-15 2 stories

• According to a poll, Generative AI is being used by a whopping 100% of Japanese online game developers, as copyright infringement concerns climb 3 sources
• The devil works hard but AI ripoffs work harder as Meccha Chameleon falls victim to hordes of copycats coming out of the woodwork

2026-07-14 4 stories

• Rockstar Should Charge $200 for GTA 6, Analyst Says, as It'll Be 'The Last Great Game' Before Everything is Built Using AI
• Review: D-topia (Switch 2) – A Sci-Fi Narrative Puzzler That Has Less To Say Than It Lets On
• George Lucas says rejecting AI is like rejecting cars in favour of horses: 'There's nothing you can do about it… it's the future'
• "They would feel a kind of sadness, right?": Slay the Spire 2 dev on using slightly rubbish placeholder art over AI

2026-07-13 1 story

• Slay The Spire 2 Is Choosing “Shit” Art Over Generative AI

2026-07-12 1 story

• Christopher Nolan celebrates Backrooms' success, believes younger generations are rejecting AI: 'Their judgement of AI slop has been immediate and harsh'

2026-07-10 1 story

• Windows Central Podcast: Copilot OS leaks and Microsoft Layoffs

2026-07-09 2 stories

• PC ports of old console games are the new AI vibe coding battleground
• It looks like Samsung is taking a leaf out of Nvidia's book and making a proper PC processor

2026-07-07 3 stories

• Meta quietly soft launches Pocket, its take on an AI-powered ‘TikTok for games’ 2 sources
• Discord accidentally banned over 8,000 people for posting grids and other ‘benign’ images 2 sources
• Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano explains why AI can't replace human creativity